diff --git a/chainforge/requirements.txt b/chainforge/requirements.txt
index d944ff58..72e73361 100644
--- a/chainforge/requirements.txt
+++ b/chainforge/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ flask[async]
 flask_cors
 requests
 openai
-urllib3==1.26.6
+urllib3==2.6.0
 mistune>=2.0
 platformdirs
 cryptography
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index aea90c5d..3d76470b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def readme():
         "flask_cors",
         "requests",
         "platformdirs",
-        "urllib3==1.26.6",
+        "urllib3==2.6.0",
         "openai",
         "cryptography",
         "mistune>=2.0",  # for LLM response markdown parsing